When sport & leisure is becoming the age’s favorite, adhering to
the idea of healthy life, people more eager to stay away from the urban
noise and pollution in order to take exercises and close to the nature
in a fresh and comfortable environment. Thus, the birth of sports park
is a creative art which integrates leisure with sport effectively. Give
play to topographical feature by using the environmental advantages such
as greenbelt, waterfront and community; integrate different sport
experience into it combing with landscape art; Sports like street
basketball, parkour, skateboard and so on let people experience the joy
of sport in art space full of creativity and make the originally
toneless community an open playground and social occasion where people
in different ages and with different skill level and cultural background
are all welcomed, which enriches the daily life.

The
topic of this issue is sports park. Excavating people’s physical
education and originality level from these sports parks with various
characteristics: Box Hill with gorgeous resources presents a new way of
community life; the largest green sport park of Zurich has been a part
of the city; the Street Dome in Danmark creates a new culture that
accommodates leisure and sport.

The topic of this issue is Cultural Space, which aggregates the models of Cultural Space from various countries in the world and guides the new direction for future development. Pattaya Royal Cliff hotel’s back to luxury of Thai style, the new commercial space of Kurve 7 community shopping center combining with open-air garden, the Medicinal Plant & Wellness Garden in college of pharmacy of university of Rhode Island, USA, Mitsui Fudosan hotel with sakura blooming, Japan…Integrating elements like natural scenery, traditional culture, territorial feature and new culture etc. into modern commercial landscape, tourism landscape and leisure landscape; developing the new type cultural space with innovative experience. Perhaps in this way, it will be more competitive.

With the rational development of urban landscape industry, the functional zoning of urban space becomes more scientific. The landscape design of resorts does not only settle for the basic functional needs as well as aesthetical standards of space but also presents the harmonious artistic conception needed by resorts. As for resorts, the Southeast Asia with natural landscape and lush plants undoubtedly boasts of unique conditions. Inspired by these conditions, and in consideration of every detail, color, and element, designers integrate the particular natural landscape together with design concepts which can be simple or ample into local history, thus creating a land of idyllic beauty that is suitable for people to return to nature and avoid the noisy world. The carefully chosen landscape design projects of Southeast Asian resorts in this issue demonstrates the unique plants and works of art in Southeast Asia thoroughly with the description of urban housing, seaside villa, business hotel and some other types.

If landscape wants to show its charm from visions, touches, feelings, smells and so on, colorful and innovative exterior decoration design plays an irreplaceable role. Exterior decoration design is the rising star of design industry recently, compare with magnificent buildings, it’s a graceful and restrained existence of the landscape. Fluctuant ingeniously-matched green plants recover the vitality of the space; distinctive home styles manifest the quality of the space; delicate art sculptures upgrade cultural connotations…. Start with the landscape elements details, design language highlights the environment, thus endows landscape with spiritual art. Messy and rigid spaces are recovered and beautified, and turns into harmonious and unique popular spaces.

If a city is a sponge, then the city will have a super function of retaining water, purifying water and seeping water. Sponge cities follow the principle of ecological priority and the combination of natural ways and artificial measures, to maximize the accumulation of rainwater, infiltration and purification in urban areas under the premise of ensuring the safety of urban drainage and waterlogging, promoting water resource utilization and ecological protection. Meanwhile, through changes in the environment, it will affect people's basic necessities of life, so that the city is full of elasticity, self-improvement, and self-sufficiency. This topic "sponge City" focuses on the environmental problems to be solved urgently by human beings. American GEO principal Mark Merkelbach painted sponge urban planning with his own hands. In Sasaki Detroit Tech Town District Plan, people are encouraged to walk by foot; American Fayetteville food city makes up the disappeared agriculture; MKSK Waterfront Park PH4 connects different biomes, making the perfect design… "Sponge city" builds green infrastructure from nature to human, and rehabilitates urban elasticity.

As an element of the landscape, bridge often plays a vital role in the whole project. It could stretch across the river and sea, located in the gardens, or functioned as pedestrian path in the busy cities...bridge has already gone beyond the meaning of transportation, just like beating rhythm, adds interests for city and natural landscape.This issue is themed as Bridge Design, there are three graceful footbridges over Hringbraut & Njardagata, newport city footbridge linking the east and west banks of the River Usk, Simone de beauvoir footbridge between Paris’ Bercy and Tolbiac, and the Ravelijn bridge with a long history…These excellent bridges decorate modern urban landscape, and describe the traditional stories at the same time. The curve pattern looks like arched back, connect now and future, thus pushing the progress of human.